Finance Manager, Shared Services

About the role

The Royal Caribbean Group is pleased to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, and excellent career development opportunities, each offering unique ways to explore the world. The Finance Manager, Shared Services reports to the Director, Risk Management Finance.

Responsibilities

• Improve capital and expense planning quality, cadence, and predictability across the Campus Modernization, Facilities, and SS&E portfolios.
• Make clearer financial accountability (owners, baselines, variances, and corrective actions) for key initiatives.
• Proactively identify and communicate financial risks, constraints, and sensitivities; ensure timely escalation with options.
• Need to have enhanced decision support for leadership via consistent business cases, scenarios, and value/ROI framing.
• Measure value creation through optimized capital deployment, lifecycle cost management, and improved return on investment.
• Portfolio planning and forecasting: Own and continuously improve capital and operating expense forecasts for Campus Modernization, Facilities, and SS&E, including pacing, phasing, and multiyear outlooks; align assumptions with strategy, delivery capacity, and operational plans. Analyze lease costs, occupancy costs, and total cost of ownership. Support budgeting and forecasting for rent, CAM, taxes, and capital expenditures. Track and report variance vs. budget for real estate spend.
• Business cases and financial models: Translate strategies into financial models, scenarios, and investment cases (e.g., NPV/ROI, lifecycle cost, payback, cost avoidance) to enable informed prioritization and trade-offs. Develop and maintain real estate financial models (NPV, IRR, lease vs. buy analysis).
• Funding strategy and decision support: Advise leaders on funding, timing, and scope decisions in response to changing business priorities and constraints; prepare recommendations that clearly articulate options, implications, and risks.
• Governance and financial discipline: Establish and operate financial governance routines (baseline setting, variance analysis, change control, benefits tracking) to improve transparency and accountability across initiatives.
• Risk identification and mitigation: Identify financial risks early (e.g., scope creep, schedule shifts, inflation/market volatility, vendor/contract exposure), quantify impacts, and drive mitigation plans with partners.
• Cross-functional partnership and influence: Partner with Campus Modernization, Facilities, and SS&E functional leaders to resolve competing interests, align financial realities with operational objectives, and drive outcomes through influence rather than authority.
• Reporting and insights: Create executive-ready narratives, dashboards, and reporting that contextualize performance, drivers, and recommended actions for leadership forums.
• Tool enablement and automation: Leverage automation and AI-enabled tools for repeatable analytics (e.g., reporting, variance identification), while applying financial judgment and discretion to resolve conflicting inputs and make recommendations.
• Finance partnership: Coordinate with central Finance and related teams (e.g., procurement, accounting, controllership) to ensure alignment to financial policies, capitalization guidance, and enterprise planning cycles.
• Decision-Making & Financial Judgment: This role requires sustained financial judgment, discretion, and cross-functional leadership that cannot be fully automated. The Finance Manager routinely navigates ambiguity, assesses competing priorities, and influences decisions across stakeholders to ensure outcomes align to strategic and operational objectives.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field (MBA/CPA/CMA/MPA preferred).
• 5–10+ years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A, capital planning, real estate finance.
• Oracle/EPM/Hyperion/Smart View experience.
• Strong financial modeling and Excel skills.
• Experience with Lease accounting systems (e.g., CoStar, SAP RE, Lucernex), data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau).
• Understanding of Lease structures (gross, net, CAM) and real estate valuation concepts.
• Demonstrated experience building multiyear financial models and business cases for complex portfolios.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders and influencing cross-functionally; comfortable operating in ambiguity.
• Understanding of capital project economics and lifecycle cost considerations (e.g., facilities, construction, real estate, workplace, infrastructure) preferred.
• Strong proficiency with financial planning/reporting tools and Excel; experience with automation and analytics solutions preferred.
• Strategic and analytical thinking; ability to connect financials to workplace and operational strategy.
• Financial governance mindset: rigor, transparency, controls, and accountability.
• Executive communication: concise storytelling, recommendation framing, and stakeholder-ready materials.
• Influence and partnership: ability to align diverse stakeholders and drive decisions without direct authority.
• Risk management: comfort quantifying uncertainty and creating actionable mitigation options.
• Continuous improvement: leveraging automation/AI-enabled tools appropriately while applying sound judgment.